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I find this document strange because it calls Hispanics "Latinx" which is not commonly used except in activist contexts. Latino/latina would make a lot more sen
by bmarquez 6y ago
I find this document strange because it calls Hispanics "Latinx" which is not commonly used except in activist contexts. Latino/latina would make a lot more sense.
- qtplatypus 6y agoHispanics and Latino/Latina are not the same. There are people who live in Latin America who don’t speak Spanish and people who speak Spanish who are not in Latin America.
- bioinformatics 6y agoAre you some kind of genius? This opened my mind in so many ways. ¡Muchas gracias por escribrir!
- dragonwriter 6y ago“Latinx” is particularly common recently, outside of activist contexts. I find it annoying, since its, at best, a linguistically-ignorant gender neutralization of Latino/Latina, and Latino (as both masculine and gender inclusive) and Latina (as feminine) themselves were adopted because they respected the language of the cultures being identified better than the existing English term (Latin), which was already gender neutral. Latinx neither does that nor is phonetically sensible in English (if you don't know it's origin, it looks like it should be pronounced “la-TINKS”), and further isn't just gender neutral but actively gender-hostile (literally X-ing out part of the identity of the people labelled with it.)